[svlug] Northpoint collapse -- possible immediate outage

[Rick Moen]

begin  Drew Bertola quotation:

> I've wondered about situations like this.  Assuming you could find
> someone to host you for the interim, wouldn't it be wise to set your
> ttls to, say, 1 hour until the crisis is resolved?

I'm _so_ smart:

$ORIGIN linuxmafia.COM.  
@       IN      SOA     linuxmafia.COM.         rick.linuxmafia.COM. (
                        2000041702              ; serial
                        10800                   ; refresh 3 hours
                        3600                    ; retry 1 hour
                        3600000                 ; expire 1000 hours
                        86400                   ; minimum 24 hours
                        )               

But wait, maybe I'm not so smart:

:r! whois -h whois.domaindiscover.com linuxmafia.com

Registrant:
   Linux Mafia
   2033 Sharon Road
   Menlo Park, CA 94025-6246
   US

   Domain Name: LINUXMAFIA.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Linux Mafia
      2033 Sharon Road
      Menlo Park, CA 94025-6246
      US
      650-561-9820
      rick at LINUXMAFIA.COM

   Domain created on 18-Jul-1998
   Domain expires on 17-Jul-2001
   Last updated on 01-Jun-2000

   Domain servers in listed order:

   MYRDDIN.IMAT.COM             140.174.70.1
   NS1.LINUXMAFIA.COM           209.81.22.250
   NS1.VARESEARCH.COM           198.186.202.185


Don't look now, but there's a dumbass I shave every morning, who's not
yet adequately learned the value of out-of-band communication.  That is,
he's stupidly left his contact e-mail address for DNS administration
_inside_ the domain in question.

That's one dumb-ass who's about to correct his immediate problem through 
Domain Discover customer service.

-- 
Cheers,                                      Right to keep and bear
Rick Moen                                  Haiku shall not be abridged
rick at linuxmafia.com                           Or denied.  So there.